Players born outside the US are becoming more dominant in the league. But the pipeline from a close neighbor is still not flowing freelyIt may be time for the National Basketball Association to consider changing its name to the International Basketball Association.For six consecutive seasons, foreign-born basketball stars have dominated the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award. Serbia’s Nikola Jokic has taken the award three times, Greece’s Giannis Antetokounmpo twice and Joel Embiid, who is a naturalized US citizen but grew up in Cameroon, has claimed it once. And going further back to 2013, more than half of the No 1 overall draft picks were born outside the US. Continue reading...